skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good call - We will get some documentation added asap. We are all security experts and user data has been a huge focus for us since day one. We currently spin up a private collection server per user and use SSL certs tied to each box for secure communications. During the beta process before we open to the public we plan to go through a couple rounds of redteam engagements. (i.e let people hack on it to attempt to gain illegal access)
I truly hope that this is going to be the result of the French "situation". It would be once and for all great to have some more substantial evidence on how growth, innovation and consumption dramatically goes down, when governments go on a tax-the-wealthy witch hunt .

Bernard Arnault should be hailed as an example, not a traitor, for leaving France and getting a Belgian citizenship.

Postulating a Unified Europe by pushing the ongoing de-nationalization of the EU member countries is absolutely antithetic to the expectation that tax payers should feel obliged to pay taxes to their home country, and not switch to the one most beneficiary for them.
I bet the ISS crew yelled the ice cream noo!
Check your impressions about Uber - they have never pretended to be a ridesharing service. Uber fares are metered and non-negotiable. The controversy with Uber is that it straddles livery car service and traditional taxis, and that makes its legal position fuzzy.

Uber is distinctly different from what the article talks about here: Sidecar for example does project itself as a "ridesharing" service, where fares are determined by the rider (with not-very-subtle "suggestions" by the service) and optional (though of course, not really).

I'm a fan of upsetting the corrupt and outdated taxicab industry, but at the same time I have few sympathies for Sidecar and the like when governments rightly call them out on their bullshit: they are not ridesharing services, no matter how dumb they play.
I would just recommend getting a payment gateway and merchant account. I am with eWay which only costs $350 per year + 50 cents per transaction. My merchant account costs a bit less per year plus a percentage of the transaction which is less than 50% of PayPal's transaction charge.

It takes longer to setup and I wouldn't really recommend them for micro businesses but they are certainly great for small businesses.
Technically, yes :)
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Stop telling me what to do HN!
whenever prospective employer has this type of CS trivia questions I lose interest to work in that environment regardless if I know or don't know answers. It shows lack of maturity and experience to understand what are actually characteristics to look for to determine good developer. This type of questions might be useful for non experienced candidates but it is fairly counterproductive for experienced candidates
Thats the part that makes PayPal unbearable. As mentioned above I have had questions asked from my merchant provider over transactions but at no point did they freeze my account. They called me, sorted out the issue and my business kept running as usual.
It's a really nice initiative by all these giants..Now we'll not have to search multiple sites for learning HTML 5 and CSS 3 at least!
... and then again php isn't good for anything anymore http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...
This sounds like "don't go outside if you're worried about being mugged". Sorry, no we almost all pay taxes used for bailouts and have our retirements invested there by our employers. We get to criticize and advocate for change.
Love it, and I'd to see or work for a company that abides by those values.
In Canada, there is a brand called "No Name."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Name_(brand)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WnoVJIMx0p8/TNV6W99nanI/AAAAAAAAAC...

Note, that per the Wikipedia page, the brand is owned by Loblaw's (I didn't even know this prior to looking up the wiki page now), which is Canada's largest food distributor/grocer. The odd thing is that they have their own generic (more recognizable) brand, President's Choice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Choice

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldw0zmYO0Z1qctkcl.jpg
Damn, you're right. I also just tested it (a better test is to hit the "24 hour preview", though I must warn you it is overwhelming).

I was figuring it would only change the hue, but in retrospect that doesn't make any sense. It wouldn't do a lot of good since a great deal of websites/apps use white heavily.

Thanks for pointing that out.
Promela, the language interpreted by Holzmann's Spin, is worth a fling. If you can dig up a copy of "Design and Implementation of Computer Protocols", you can get a bunch of good ideas and experience from messing around with Spin.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3970427 Using A Slime-Mold To Calculate Minimum Spanning Trees
It's the easiest thing to do.
Thanks for this link, I liked how it gave specific examples of behavior to correct, all of which I could recognize from personal experience. Particularly this one, when asking questions:

Instead of your underlying point coming across as "your
idea is unfeasible," it comes across as, "You've brought
this good idea to us, and I hope we're smart enough to
make it work."
I don't think edw519 said anything about "refine[ing] my product forever."

But having a thorough test plan better be a part of your project roll-out. No one wants to go through the rabbit holes of corporatized QA team B.S. but product refinement is a different topic entirely than the point of his comment, which was testing that product before launching it to the masses.

If you think your product won't be seen by many customers, well OK. Set it free. If you have a major push behind it, however, and know 100's of thousands of people are going to be mashing it to death in the first few hours or days, adding a time buffer for testing beyond your close family and friends is wise advice. It will save you money in the long run, too.

The alternative is to become buried under an avalanche of crash reports, bad reviews and ratings. And, conversations like, "If only we'd had more time to test this thing."
Have they changed it? ITA used to be very popular with the FlyerTalk MR crowd. I used to use it for the searching flights stage (getting info but not booking).

I think the best matrix would be something like OAG, listing all flights that each airline is currently offering, but also listing prices on each flight.

A pipe dream if ever there was one.
>That's not entirely true. I'm an amateur and I want to invest actively using statistics. But getting tick data (covering years/decades) is costly and dealing with it as well. I could handle it if it were daily (if all trades were limited to 9am auction every day. This would also allow room for much more extensive modeling of other data sources and longer term predictions).

It's not that expensive to get historical data. You can get daily for free. You can get minute data for years for ~$65.00/month and tick data for an extra $25.00/month.

The expensive part is direct market access, and even that is reasonable if you've got a successful trading strategy.
You are correct, but also if you spot "hundreds of bugs" it seems fair to say the trigger was pulled prematurely.
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How do know what happens at an end-brace? Have to go look at the matching start-brace to see if it is a while or for or if. Madness! Can I assume the code above even executed once? No! What of I check the guard clause first? It has variables! Oh heavens, control flow depends on arbitrary RUNTIME data!?
BBC and others targeted by Microsoft copyright takedown request
$39k in eBook Sales Part 2: Design, Testimonials, and Traffic
Startup Growth Requires Making Your Own Luck
That Zoos can feed their Gazelles left over cake?
How would Paypal know why someone is getting money?
Love the idea, sent through a beta invite request. Not sure about the fade in on the images on about.crowdsend I find it a bit annoying combined with scrolling - its like having two transitions on a powerpoint slide.
If only the programmer had the sense to name them in a style-compliant way

Cmnd

Cmd

Command

RecCommand

Command

(Couldn't resist that last one)
This is part 2 of me (Sacha Greif) and Nathan's podcast about eBook marketing. As usual, feel free to ask us questions. And here is a link to the HN discussion about part 1: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4600394
Yes, I need to retract my prior comment about the engine "exploding" [1]; the failure mode was much more benign, and the surround engines were never under threat. However, the nozzle was very clearly ejected following the shut-down, so for all intents and purposes, it became an ex-engine. And the Falcon didn't flinch. Impressive.

Watching this private space stuff manifest is absolutely thrilling. I was tangentially involved in things way back in the early 90's, when the private space geeks were regarded as crackpots by the mainstream aerospace community, if indeed they were acknowledged at all. They certainly didn't have any money (aside from odd forays such as Andrew Beal's[2] and Gary Hudson's[3] abortive adventures), and often did come across as crackpots, but for the life of me it seemed like they had a valid point. To see those sort of folks finally succeed is just infinitely thrilling.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4625221

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beal_Aerospace

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Rocket
Contrary to this Stack thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1143498/difference-betwee...
>>> The intent of these players isn't necessarily to slow down an exchange, but also to force "opponents" to slow down as they handle more of a load as the orderbook is frequently updated with garbage orders.

LOL. You can't do that. It is illegal. And if you'd do that intentionally, SEC would be calling you the same day.
empirical and detailed, covers many cases of possible contribution by co-founders
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There wasn’t anything we could do about the poor reception on HN,
but we’d been working on this for three months
expecting it to be a smash hit as soon as we launched.

If you're working on something new repeat after me: "It wont be a smash hit"

That way you can make a plan that will actually fit reality and create your own growth.
This article does not mention some important context.

I don't know all the ins and outs, but it's important to understand that the big US experiment in nuclear fusion was NIF, at LLNL. They (perhaps rashly) promised net energy gain by the end of this fiscal year. This whole thing was part of an elaborate political deal regarding maintaining nuclear expertise during the test ban treaty.

Anyway, net gain did not happen; the ratio of energy out to energy in at the NIF is 0.1. This had been expected for many months now (indeed, it was predicted by some as soon as the deal was cut, years ago.)

At this point, the pie of nuclear research dollars is going to be re-cut with different allocations. For one thing, the fusion/non-fusion balance at NIF is going to tilt away from fusion.

So, in the absence of a NIF fusion success story, this press release could be part of a campaign by other labs or other experiments to press their own research agenda for fusion.

For partial background:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/science/fusion-project-fac...
There's no value, and I think that's the point. If it doesn't make sense to commute, you figure out how to work remotely (if it works for the business).

Burning an hour on driving every day (or biking) doesn't help anyone, but an hour of yoga might. Or time with your kids. Or climbing mountains.

Anything but commuting.
thanks mate. yeah i tried playing with that a bit - the idea was to stop people reading ahead so they focus on the content they are viewing and don't skip stuff

i can totally appreciate its annoying. kinda tough how to balance it
The interesting thing for me reading this article was, when I got to the section where he discusses comments on his post, I couldn't help but think, "Damn, the internet would be so BORING if everyone was that nice all the time." What would be the fun of an internet where everyone is so positive and generous all the time?

Maybe I'm just addicted to intellectual sparring. Who knows.
Yep, I'm happy to answer any questions as well.
I'm not confusing anything. Yes the previous crash wasn't HFT but current trends will lead to the already rich (the banks) being the HFT's because the land surrounding the exchange is limited and costs will increase (HFT is about land and computer resources, and high speed networks - new models don't factor in as much). It won't be programmers calling the shots, they'll be employed by the banks. Already, the average geek is outgunned (overall competitiveness has decreased).
I'd be offering free apps that users unlock via an in-app purchase right now if it weren't for Lodsys.

Software patents are a cancer and we all lose when somebody can come along and assert an obvious idea like this is theirs.
Many offices have parties for releases, or quarterly, or whatever.

Merlinn Mann said it best: If donuts in the break room is the highlight of your day, you need to change what you're doing, or "have more interesting problems."
... I was using that nomenclature for the short hand of "inclusive/exclusive". 1 to 9 exclusive is 1 to 8 in the integer set. Sorry for the lack of clarity. Perhaps now we can get to my original point?
I feel like you missed the point of the article.
>I'm very impressed by this private-enterprise venture into heavy-lift launch services.

The fact that an engine failed, should be viewed as a success, as it allowed for the validation of the fault tolerant design.

It's not that one should never have failures, what matters is how they mitigate and adapt, in order to complete the mission.
So we live in a zoo and eat gazelles. Ok, that makes sense now.
a) A/B testing grammar is a lame idea.

b) Please isn't perfectly crafted, it's just the right way to spell that word.

c) Text speak is a signal, but only a positive one for functionally illiterate Eloi.
I dragged a box over the ipod demo image and tried to identify as an ipod. It told me it couldn't find anything called "ipod"?
I would dispute that charging a penny to send an email would not have an impact on "legitimate" use... there are certainly many "legitimate" email groups with thousands of users.
How does one slime mold react to the 'slime' left by another?
yeah sorry - the server is getting smashed at the moment - have to free up some mem!

but let me know what browser so i can double check ?
In a world of "MIS" this sounds like a godsend. Needing someone to come over from another building to let you install a new program is a huge wall of WHY?!
Interesting product. What's the incentive for someone to do the research to figure out what's in an image?
Corner of Williams and Saratoga in San Jose!

I've thought about visiting that restaurant, but always wondered if it would be a disaster. I guess it's time to pay a visit...
Um, "(The name sort of popped into my head and wouldn’t leave. It is a pun, it relates to my business and personal brand, and it gives the impression of Hitting the Target that successful testing should give you. "

Please name a salesperson more open and honest than Patrick. Tell us who he should emulate. If people don't emulate Patrick's style, maybe they should follow Marc Pincus or Coffeefool instead?
I highly doubt you won't be celebrating when you make your first million.

edit: And I think you should be! You should be happy, this should be an achievement to you, not just another day at the office. But a day at the office you get to talk about as a milestone.
Different opportunity cost, but if they both become obsessions and roadblocks to doing the work, then the search in either case is just a form of procrastination.
Did you guys build out your own HW/DC or are you just reselling someone else's stuff?
yeah at the moment we are doing a point based system where user gets discounts from retailers. unsure what will work best but its something that we going to play around with until we find what works best
I'm sure it's a perfectly good topic to discuss, but I wonder what's motivating this sudden trend of "You must be this tall to call yourself a programmer" posts?
Intellectual sparring doesn't necessitate being not nice.
Seems like it'd be a fun project to hack together a scale model with someone who understood the physics. Computer control of flight surfaces would probably go a long way towards negating the difficulty of controlling it, and RC jet turbines could power it.
Well, the costs add up. You have to process that data as well afterwards. And all those resources are being diverted away from collecting other data and making longer term predictions. Multiply that by the millions who could be trading but don't (a few hundred dollars a month is a barrier to a lot of people, that might have been the profit of a small strategy that worked).
Excellent question, and one I would love an answer to as well! I am very comfortable working with people, and get along great with everyone. I would go as far as to say I'm usually quite an important part of most groups I am a part of, once everybody gets to know me.

The thing that frustrates me, however, is how few people I end up "hanging out" with, and really enjoy the company of. I put that down to a sort of "social fatigue" because of my being an introvert. I'd be curious to see if this is a problem anybody else has managed to conquer.
which is exactly the point why this type of question is useless
I will always reference other sources (google,book,peer) if I am not sure and I am not sure for anything that I am not using frequently
Real test is how many people will get it wrong using all resources usually available in working environment
Not all 4G is built equally
What you are describing is a method of turning a profit on automated wealth destruction, or am I misunderstanding something?
This is what's wrong with software patents.
Ironically Apple pulls the same shit all the time.
To be honest, this seems like a set of 'nice company policies,' rather than core values. A lot of these could be summarized with a single value that they are idealizing. This list looks like a good way to implement those core values.

Edit: Here are the core values of Google, Apple, Facebook, Zynga, Salesforce, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Netflix, HP, Zappos, Twitter, LinkedIn, SAS, and Cisco.

http://bestengagingcommunities.com/2012/07/31/a-sample-of-th...
While you're taking suggestions, let me enter my information instead of parsing my social network connections:

a) I don't have some of those social networks at all and

b) I'm not going to let you have access to the other ones.

I'm probably the ideal target for you, in terms of offering services, but I'm simply not going to bother if you require, even politely, intrusion into my life.
Excuse me? You have an entire posterior distribution at your disposal. Kindly calculate E(theta^2 | X) - E(theta | X)^2 and report back.
With a little bit of luck, the iPhone 5 is the first of many "objects from the future". (Whether from Apple or not).
Yeah I can't think of any tricks that would work better for that. Although I think letting people skip through the way they normally read sites would be a good thing.
You mean the Mark Cuban who rode out the tech bubble to sell his company making 13.5 million in revenue for 5.9 billion in stock is arguing that the stock market is now broken? How wonderful.
It's crazy how so many people in this generation believe that getting rich is evil and wrong..but being forced to give up 60-80% of your earnings to a government that will most likely squander it is not.

Don't worry though. When all of the rich leave, there will be nobody left to tax.
Uninstall Microsoft word professional
Motorola shows pirated Katy Perry video to prove value of its H.264 patents
An old and not really advanced Linux programming book. See comments on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Linux-Programming-CodeSourcer...
Maybe it's the mobile version of the post but feels like some of these simple lessons about posting to HN could benefit your engagement rate from this post:

http://www.meetingburner.com/blog/2012/10/05/a-story-of-two-...

Eg - talk about what your service actually is in the post, link to it, and lay out a call to action so you turn some of the HN traffic into actual users vs browsers . . .
Whether they have a monopoly or not is a question for the courts, I consider them to have a monopoly in search, apparently you do not. In the case that they don't have a monopoly in search then you're correct, but if they are found to have a monopoly then they could be found in violation.

Actually anti-trust law is about using the profits from one business to vertically integrate others by using the profits from one to subsidize the other. There is a modern component to it that revolves around consumer harm but anti-trust law was written as a means of redress for other businesses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Monopoly_charges_a...
When I first saw this post, it didn't include the following snippet:

Object.create(null);

I disagreed adamantly that a hash with pre-defined names is not a hash. The language already provides a means to get a hash without the pre-defined names, and any clever person can hack around naming collisions regardless. He now notes these things at the end of the article, but then the entire argument doesn't imply that a hash is not a hash. He does a good job pointing out a mistake ALMOST EVERYONE makes, and I applaud that, but the title is horribly misleading, even when given the proper context.

Also, @mcot2, I didn't intend to post as a reply to you, but since I have, to answer your question, collections (Maps, Sets, and WeakMaps) are available in V8 and consequently Node already (via --harmony flags). Because the implementations of these with get/set is not tied to the object's properties, these don't have the same problem.
First of all, you haven't yet told me why high frequency trading is driving up data costs.

Secondly, if $100/month is stopping your business from being profitable, that's a fault with your business model, nothing more. It would cost more to get a medium size Windows instance on Amacon EC2 for the month.

>Multiply that by the millions who could be trading but don't (a few hundred dollars a month is a barrier to a lot of people, that might have been the profit of a small strategy that worked).

I don't think you can claim that millions of people are being locked out of the market because of data costs.
"Tim Berners-Lee - Tim Berners-Lee"
Reselling ATM (we put this together fairly quickly). We designed our backend architecture to be fairly agnostic though in case we want to switch providers or deploy it in house.
The design seemed really familiar to me... is there any connection with http://www.systemone.net/ ?
I'm confused by that statement in the video. From my experience bloggers don't have the same level of importance as investors and engineers do.

Can anyone explain how bloggers are so necessary that "none of it would work if there wasn't each part?"
Here is an interesting video from BBC on how slime mold recreates the tokyo railroad plan and solves mazes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNAxrpzc6ws&feature=playe...
Yeah I tried to put those slide buttons on the right side to help with that prob but ill try to think how to fix what you mention. Thanks heaps for the feedback
> So how could it possibly be faster if both implementations use an equal amount of optimization otherwise.

Who says they are?
I really Google doing something like this a long while ago. They turned it into a game of some mind. (My memory fails me)
Buying really isn't worth anything if you never plan to sell however...so.